Art Linkletter
Art Linkletter
Arthur Gordon "Art" Linkletterwas a Canadian-born American radio and television personality. He was the host of House Party, which ran on CBS radio and television for 25 years, and People Are Funny, on NBC radio and TV for 19 years...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Show Host
Date of Birth17 July 1912
CountryUnited States of America
rivers people gold
People find gold in fields, veins, river beds, and pockets. Whichever, it takes work to get it out.
ideas people hula
Yes, I backed the hula hoop. And I had a lot of other people come to me with ideas that turned out well
philosophy people golden
My philosophy is to do the best you can for somebody. Help. It's not just what do you for yourself. It's how you treat people decently. The golden rule. There isn't big anything better than the golden rule. It's in every major religion in one language or another.
children two people
The two best interview subjects are children under 10 and people over 70 for the same reason: they say the first thing that comes to their mind. The children don't know what they're saying and the old folks don't care.
hobos poor grew
I grew up poor. I never had any money. I was a hobo, you know, ride the freights
beautiful squares important
Radio was so important to everybody back then; there was no TV. Columbia Square was the epitome of radio. Everything was modern. It was beautiful.
art jumping trouble
Diplomacy: the art of jumping into trouble without making a splash.
music towns reason
Troubadours travelled from town to town. They didn't really sing too good, which is the main reason they kept going.
mother country dad
A traveling show visited a country town and one of the acts was advertised as a striptease. A small boy begged his mother for a quarter to buy a ticket, but the mother refused, telling her son that if he went to that show he would see something awful. Well, the boy sneaked in the show and the first thing he saw was something awful - his own dad sitting on the front row.
needs aging grows
No one can keep from aging, but there is no need to grow old.
thinking together committees
Committees are to get everybody together and homogenize their thinking.
better-days finished products
A finished product is one that has already seen its better days.
college wonderful wonderful-things
One of the wonderful things about going to a small college is you can get into everything.
patriotic grandmother grandchildren
Posterity is the patriotic name for grandchildren.